Texas

Denominational Groups, 2000

5,084,656	1,681,070	22,755	4,368,969	416,099	9,278,204
Evangelical Protestant	Mainline Protestant	Orthodox	Catholic	Other	Unclaimed

Congregational "adherents" include all full members, their children, and others who regularly attend services. The historically African American denominations are not included in the 2000 congregation and membership totals. Many are also missing in 1990 and most historically African American denominations are missing in the 1980 reports.
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Reports

Religious Bodies	Theology	Congregations	Adherents	Adherence Rate^†
Catholic Church	Catholic	1,290	3,574,728	210.5
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	4,285	3,259,395	191.9
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	2,186	1,004,318	59.1
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	815,771	48.0
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	2,215	380,948	22.4
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	1,274	202,082	11.9
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	579	200,969	11.8
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	424	169,112	10.0
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	401	155,276	9.1
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	345	134,280	7.9
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	182	132,292	7.8
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	113	127,850	7.5
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	498	125,323	7.4
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	329	111,276	6.6
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	72	107,980	6.4
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	428	105,495	6.2
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	325	45,097	2.7
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	258	41,470	2.4
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	147	33,766	2.0
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	206	27,828	1.6
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	74	20,950	1.2
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	24	12,905	0.8
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	163	12,296	0.7
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	50	10,373	0.6
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	35	6,766	0.4
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	94	5,854	0.3
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	40	5,843	0.3
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	50	5,676	0.3
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	90	5,517	0.3
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	33	5,463	0.3
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	40	5,445	0.3
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	55	4,936	0.3
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	36	4,463	0.3
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	74	4,278	0.3
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	45	3,082	0.2
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	83	2,918	0.2
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	25	2,548	0.2
Primitive Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	53	2,544	0.2
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	9	2,191	0.1
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch	Orthodox	4	1,800	0.1
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	32	1,743	0.1
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	14	1,634	0.1
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	3	1,592	0.1
Evangelical Methodist Church	Evangelical Protestant	15	1,482	0.1
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	27	1,228	0.1
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	11	892	0.1
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	22	886	0.1
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	9	866	0.1
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	3	721	0.0
Church of God in Christ, Mennonite	Evangelical Protestant	5	522	0.0
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	7	490	0.0
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	400	0.0
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	8	329	0.0
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	4	302	0.0
Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses	Orthodox	1	282	0.0
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	4	278	0.0
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada	Evangelical Protestant	6	242	0.0
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	5	221	0.0
Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	2	146	0.0
Church of the Lutheran Confession	Evangelical Protestant	3	144	0.0
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	144	0.0
Reformed Episcopal Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	115	0.0
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	104	0.0
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	3	93	0.0
Interstate & Foreign Landmark Missionary Baptists Association	Evangelical Protestant	1	76	0.0
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	73	0.0
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	71	0.0
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	70	0.0
Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	1	53	0.0
Eastern Pennsylvania Mennonite Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	39	0.0
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	1	23	0.0
Fellowship of Evangelical Bible Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	20	0.0
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	13	0.0
Christ Catholic Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	3	0.0
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	93	n.a.	n.a.
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	9	n.a.	n.a.
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	4	n.a.	n.a.
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	15	n.a.	n.a.
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	16,961	10,896,401

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 16,986,403. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (10,896,401) include 64.1% of the total population in 1990.

Source

The 1990 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and include statistics for 132 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Martin B. Bradley, Norman M. Green, Jr., Dale E. Jones, Mac Lynn, and Lou McNeil supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1990, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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^†The adherence rate provides the number of adherents of a particular group per 1,000 population. For example, in 2000 the Episcopal Church had an adherence rate of approximately 8 (8.1) in Autauga County, Alabama. This means that 8 out of every 1,000 people in Autauga county are Episcopalian.